HOUSE Votes to Stop Medical Marijuana and Hemp Prosecutions

[CatoMinor]

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[Simfan34]

Rohrabacher was going crazy in his speech. He sounded like a maniac.

[CatoMinor]

Rohrabacher was going crazy in his speech. He sounded like a maniac.

He didn't say anything that isn't true.

[Simfan34]

Rohrabacher was going crazy in his speech. He sounded like a maniac.

He didn't say anything that isn't true.

Well it doesn't change the fact he sounded crazed. This is atrocious legislation.

[CatoMinor]

Rohrabacher was going crazy in his speech. He sounded like a maniac.

He didn't say anything that isn't true.

Well it doesn't change the fact he sounded crazed. This is atrocious legislation.

If you can come up with one argument based on logic and sound reason why people should be punished for producing HEMP, then I will eat my hat.

[memphis]

Surprised Boehner allowed a vote. Party breakdown?

[Simfan34]

Rohrabacher was going crazy in his speech. He sounded like a maniac.

He didn't say anything that isn't true.

Well it doesn't change the fact he sounded crazed. This is atrocious legislation.

If you can come up with one argument based on logic and sound reason why people should be punished for producing HEMP, then I will eat my hat.

It encourages disrespect for the laws and authority.

[Gass3268]

Rohrabacher was going crazy in his speech. He sounded like a maniac.

He didn't say anything that isn't true.

Well it doesn't change the fact he sounded crazed. This is atrocious legislation.

If you can come up with one argument based on logic and sound reason why people should be punished for producing HEMP, then I will eat my hat.

It encourages disrespect for the laws and authority.

You don't have to eat your hat.

[memphis]

Rohrabacher was going crazy in his speech. He sounded like a maniac.

He didn't say anything that isn't true.

Well it doesn't change the fact he sounded crazed. This is atrocious legislation.

If you can come up with one argument based on logic and sound reason why people should be punished for producing HEMP, then I will eat my hat.

It encourages disrespect for the laws and authority.

To the contrary, silly prohibitionist laws encourage disrespect for law and authority.

[Maxwell]

God bless Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.

[CatoMinor]

It encourages disrespect for the laws and authority.

Growing a plant (that you don't smoke unless you are an idiot) to produce clothing, rope, paper, plastics, etc... encourages disrespect for authority? In my hopes that you are smarter than this, I'll assume you misunderstood me. I am asking you to defend the law its self that blocks hemp production, not just its enforcement.

Maybe you just have never left the city in your life and haven't been exposed to nature, perhaps things that look similar confuse you, I don't know, but whatever the reason you should know that hemp is not the same as the cannabis that people use for medicinal/recreational purposes. It has negligible amounts of THC in it so there is really no excuse to promote punishing people who produce a harmless plant.

[Maxwell]

This maybe the only bill that has both Barbara Lee and Steve Stockman as co-sponsors.

[TNF]

Rohrabacher was going crazy in his speech. He sounded like a maniac.

He didn't say anything that isn't true.

Well it doesn't change the fact he sounded crazed. This is atrocious legislation.

If you can come up with one argument based on logic and sound reason why people should be punished for producing HEMP, then I will eat my hat.

It encourages disrespect for the laws and authority.

F**k law and f**k authority.

Immorality dressed up as law and authority is the worst kind of immorality and should not be respected by self-respecting, free people. I have far more respect for those who defy immoral laws like these than those who enforce said laws or who make them.

Good on the House for doing something about these archaic, immoral laws.

[CatoMinor]

Also then Simfan, would you defend prosecuting people who housed runaway slaves? As that certainly disrespected law and authority.

[Simfan34]

Also then Simfan, would you defend prosecuting people who housed runaway slaves? As that certainly disrespected law and authority.

This is racist, to say nothing of its hyperbolic strawman-ism. The law also deals with marijuana for consumption, but that's beside the point.

I'd oppose legalising marijuana even if it brought us world peace and ended Eritrean independence- it's a matter of eroding authority. We took a position, and it would be perilous not to stand by it.

[Simfan34]

Do I really believe that? I don't think so. But I oppose marijuana legalisation, health effects be damned. That is my honest belief. It is a matter of people challenging authority without consequence for their own selfish pleasure. Slavery and civil rights were other matters entirely.

[AkSaber]

It encourages disrespect for the laws and authority.

But doesn't it encourage disrespect for laws and authority, to throw non-violent drug possessors in prison for years, or decades at a time, when murderers and rapists aren't even punished that harshly?

[King]

I look forward to the creative way in which the Senate will drop the ball on this one.

[Nhoj]

Surprised Boehner allowed a vote. Party breakdown?

Republican        Democrat
  Aye  49               170
  No    172             17
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/113-2014/h258

[badgate]

Surprised Boehner allowed a vote. Party breakdown?

Republican        Democrat
  Aye  49               170
  No    172             17
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/113-2014/h258

Ha...and they say Republicans will steal the issue from us...

[windjammer]

I would have voted Aye.

[Hifly]

Joe Kennedy and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz voted NAY, lol.

[TDAS04]

Obviously the right decision.

Do I really believe that? I don't think so. But I oppose marijuana legalisation, health effects be damned. That is my honest belief. It is a matter of people challenging authority without consequence for their own selfish pleasure. Slavery and civil rights were other matters entirely.

This is about medical marijuana.  If terminally ill people defy authority in order to ease their suffering, I don't see how anyone could support punishing them and destroying the rest of their lives.

[Person Man]

Obviously the right decision.

Do I really believe that? I don't think so. But I oppose marijuana legalisation, health effects be damned. That is my honest belief. It is a matter of people challenging authority without consequence for their own selfish pleasure. Slavery and civil rights were other matters entirely.

This is about medical marijuana.  If terminally ill people defy authority in order to ease their suffering, I don't see how anyone could support punishing them and destroying the rest of their lives.

It seems that this just comes down to people being that annoyed with people who use marijuana.

[Meursault]

Simfan is another poster who seems to have a pathological aversion to independent thought.